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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ID0025429

U.S. SILVER CORPORATION - IDAHO INC (CALADAY MINE), Wallace, ID: NPDES ID0025429 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

U.S. SILVER CORPORATION - IDAHO INC (CALADAY MINE), held by U.S. SILVER CORP - IDAHO INC, holds NPDES permit ID0025429, which discharges to Daly Creek. EPA’s file records it issued March 30, 1990 and expiring March 30, 1995. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedU.S. SILVER CORPORATION - IDAHO INC (CALADAY MINE)
Permittee as filedU.S. SILVER CORP - IDAHO INC
NPDES IDID0025429
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedMarch 30, 1990
Expiration dateMarch 30, 1995
AddressWallace, ID 83873
Receiving waterDALY CREEK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedTwomile Creek-South Fork Coeur d'Alene River (HUC 170103020301)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

An effluent exceedance is a discharge monitoring report value over the permit’s numeric limit (EPA’s violation code E90). A violation of any kind also counts a report not filed. Each row is EPA’s own count for that pollutant.

Pollutant or measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Solids, total suspended6264August 31, 2016420% over the limit
Copper, total [as Cu]6232June 30, 2008567% over the limit
Mercury, total [as Hg]6222April 30, 1996100% over the limit
pH10290
Cadmium, total [as Cd]6220
Lead, total [as Pb]6220
Zinc, total [as Zn]6220
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant5140

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES limits and effluent violations files (ECHO download); up to 60 rows shown, most exceedances first.

Inspections, violations and enforcement

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES ID0025429.

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not include the inspections, formal enforcement actions and informal enforcement actions files, so this page shows none of them. EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO lists this permit’s inspections, enforcement actions and penalties.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES violation, inspection and enforcement files (ECHO download); up to 50 rows of each shown, newest first.

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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES discharge permit ID0025429, held by U.S. SILVER CORPORATION - IDAHO INC (CALADAY MINE) in Wallace, ID, which discharges to Daly Creek and carries an administratively continued status with a Minor Discharger class. The page lists 8 as the discharger class, 3 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.